trophy watch: serena’s name on the daphne akhurst cup

We can always count on Serena Williams to get dolled up for her trophy photo session. This fifth title in Melbourne is no exception. Here she is posing with the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup. (Read: Akhurst an Aussie tennis legend)

Can you imagine how these pics would have turned out if Justine had won the title? We shudder to think.

Why bring race into ur comments, seems like u’re being too sensitive. And it’s kinda rude to say that Serena took Justine to sch in third set…Justine clearly has more skills than anyone could think of, luck isn’t on her side and though Serena played well, but that doesn’t mean she’ll be no 1 forever.

‘Thug’ is, unfortunately, still a very much racially-loaded word; I don’t think I’ve ever seen that term applied to a famous white person, ever.

And to you, “To rami,” who thinks rami was “being too sensitive” about it and then turning around (in your very next sentence) and being sensitive yourself about Justine getting owned in the third, your bias is showing.